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I just searched using the find-posts link under your name, it worked fine. Were you searching while logged out? If so, that is a known bug that hit a couple weeks ago. Holiday-related stuff has been taking time from solving it.

Location: Well the sports issue was within arm's reach but they closed up shop and kicked me out. And I'm out of toilet paper.

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Dec 7, 2013, 07:37 PM

No, the way I've always searched my posts is I go to the forums page and scroll all the way down to Who's Online and click on my name. This is how I've searched my own posts on forums for 12 years because it's the quickest way for me to search my most recent posts so that I don't wander aimlessly looking for my recent posts in all the threads... but I get an error message:

"This user has not registered and therefore does not have a profile to view."

No, the way I've always searched my posts is I go to the forums page and scroll all the way down to Who's Online and click on my name. This is how I've searched my own posts on forums for 12 years because it's the quickest way for me to search my most recent posts so that I don't wander aimlessly looking for my recent posts in all the threads... but I get an error message:

"This user has not registered and therefore does not have a profile to view."

Therefore, I can't search my own posts.

Has no one else had this problem?

I see the problem, your user link is going to and-reg instead of and.reg. It was probably something in the conversion between forum software.

It's a problem with vbSEO URL rewrites. I can fix it, but only globally. ie - change the profile-link rewrite rule. At the moment, you can reach (almost) any profile via:

http :// forums.macnn.com / membername

And.reg's link works if typed manually, but board links are broken. A handful of other people are affected too, people with unusual characters in their names. I could change the rewrite rule to include the userID, or cancel rewrites on member profiles. But that will change the links for everyone, and the above shortcut may no longer work.

Having the same/similar issue that And.reg posted in early December. Advanced Search functionality not working. Doesn't matter which poster I specify. After entering search criteria and hitting "Search Now" button, I get nothing, but a blank, white page. I believe this had been working fine however, well past And.reg's posting of the problem. Meaning, I believe I successfully used Advanced Search within the past couple of weeks.

Same happens when trying to access through links in posts and through the formal, designated search options. Safari on MBA.

Reader, do we need to pitch in for extra vitamins for the hampstor? Sounds like he's starting to miss stuff now and then.

However, I've had some issues on other boards over the last several days where I was certain I'd posted and nothing showed up. And yesterday, a very trusted site was telling me it had detected that my Internet connection was running slowly - but that site was the only thing going slowly. Maybe the Top Level Domain hampstors need vitamins...

No clue on that one. Our templates include an insert point for the banner ad. The banner code should all come from the ad server, wherever that is. Or your browser could be shrinking it, when it exceeds a certain pixel width. I'd expect a softer scaling though, not a 1/4 shrink.

er, randomly smaller banner ads. Are you complaining, or is this a compliment?

Which forum? There are a couple settings in your UserCP that control that, from default age view, to default items-per-page settings. Default age setting for most forums is threads bumped in the last 30 days, plus any stickies or announcements.

I'm guessing you visited a low-traffic forum, where there were only 10 current threads?

Were the missing posts made on Friday Jan 20? The DB server overloaded that day, affecting a bunch of 'NN sites. We were offline for a couple hours, and slow/glitchy before that.

I'm not seeing any deleted posts. If you kept copies of the text, I'd be interested in searching for them in the DB. In case they got entered, but with missing info. If the thread ID were missing, they would be orphan posts.